Category: CMS
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State highlights: Some hospitals aim for wealthier patients; N.C. Medicaid changes debated; Mich. panel Oks higher health care costs for workers
A selection of health policy stories from North Carolina, California, Michigan and Missouri. …read more
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Wyden’s Medicare proposal portends new powerful post
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the likely next Senate Finance Committee chairman, is flexing his political muscles by proposing a change to how Medicare treats and pays for care for chronically ill patients. Wyden is in line to take over chairmanship of the committee when Sen. Max Baucus is confirmed as U.S. ambassador to China. …read…
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Facing Medicare funding cuts, Virginia hospitals push for Medicaid expansion
Expanding the program for low-income residents would help bring new revenue to the hospitals. Meanwhile, supporters of Medicaid expansion offer a new proposal in Nebraska and a young man in Utah diagnosed with cancer faces treatment problems because he lost his Medicaid coverage. …read more
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WEDI to feds: Ramp up ICD-10 testing efforts
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange this week urged the federal government to conduct additional Medicare testing prior to the implementation of ICD-10 in a letter to U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. read more …read more
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CMS: Meaningful Use registration numbers lowest since last summer
Participation in the Meaningful Use incentive program carries on, with more than 83 percent of eligible hospitals and 49 percent of eligible professionals attesting, and close to $18 billion in Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments issued as of November 2013, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. read more …read more
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Bill seeks team-based approach to caring for Medicare patients with chronic illness
Sen. Ron Wyden plans to unveil a bill to encourage team-based care in the program for older and disabled Americans. In the meantime, Medicare readies to deliver payment data for individual doctors on a “case-by-case” basis. …read more
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CMS To Release Medicare Physician Payment Data
Medicare will soon begin releasing payment data for individual physicians on a “case-by-case basis,” the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced this week. Medicare will soon begin releasing payment data for individual physicians on a “case-by-case basis,” the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced this week. The agency had previously blocked…
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Laying the Foundation for Bundled Payments in Tennessee
Earl Anderson, executive director of Tennessee Orthopaedic Clinics, a 23-orthopedic-surgeon medical group in Knoxville, describes his organization’s development of mechanisms for becoming involved in bundled-payment contracting Last autumn, Earl Anderson, executive director of Tennessee Orthopaedic Clinics, a 23-orthopedic-surgeon group based in Knoxville, Tennessee, presented at an event held in Nashville, and sponsored by the Nashville-based…
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More GOP governors give Medicaid expansion another look
Politico reports that while Republican governors in Texas and Louisiana remain firmly in the no camp, others in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Indiana and Oklahoma are giving the program a second look. News outlets also offer updates from Florida, Pennsylvania, Kansas and Georgia. …read more
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Obama administration proposes Medicare drug change
In a move that some fear could compromise care for Medicare recipients, the Obama administration is proposing to remove special protections that guarantee seniors access to a wide selection of three types of drugs. …read more